Friday, August 8, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Z-Word: Siné: 'The Only Leftist of the Far Right in France' - 'Elif Kayi, Z Word’s European press reviewer, reports on the continuing row in France over the sacking of Siné, a prominent satirist, after he published an article widely-judged to be antisemitic. The furore around the Siné affair has split France’s opinion-formers into two groups. On one side, those who depict the case as being about freedom of speech. On the other, those who insist that the controversy - triggered by the veteran satirist being fired from the magazine Charlie Hebdo after he wrote that Jean Sarkozy, son of the French President, would “go far in this life” by converting to Judaism and marrying his wealthy Jewish girlfriend - raises deeply disturbing questions about antisemitism in France today...'
